§3-10-6. Vacancy in office of circuit court clerk.
When a vacancy occurs in the office of clerk of the circuit court, the circuit court by a majority vote of the judges, or the chief judge thereof in vacation, shall fill the same by appointment of a person of the same political party as the officeholder vacating the office until the next general election, or until the completion of the term if the term ends on the thirty-first day of December following the next general election. The person so appointed shall hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified. At the general election, a clerk shall be elected for the unexpired term if the unexpired term is greater than one year. The circuit court, or the chief judge thereof in vacation, shall cause a notice of the election to be published prior to the election as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code. The publication area for the publication shall be the county. If the vacancy occurs no later than the eighty-fourth day before the primary election held to nominate candidates to be voted for at the general election, at which any vacancy is to be filled, candidates to fill the vacancy shall be nominated at the primary election in accordance with the time requirements and the provisions and procedures prescribed in section eleven, article five of this chapter. If the vacancy occurs after the eighty-fourth day before the primary but not later than the eighty-fourth day before the general election, they shall be nominated by the county executive committee in the manner provided in section nineteen, article five of this chapter, as in the case of filling vacancies in nominations, and the names of the persons, so nominated and certified to the clerk of the county commission of the county, shall be placed upon the ballot to be voted at the next general election.